Horror crash on N1
2009-01-29
Lise Beyers
ANOTHER four people were killed in the area this past weekend after two horrific road crashes. On Sunday morning at 05:30, three people were killed instantly on the N1, when the driver of a VW Jetta lost control of his vehicle, while crossing the bridge at the Klapmuts exit. According to rescue workers, the car must have been travelling at high speed, when it collided with a barrier in the central island, ripping it completely out of the ground. The vehicle then catapulted through the air, before smashing into the support wall of the bridge on the far side of the opening between the northbound and south-bound sections of the N1. It remained dangling from the bridge. Three male passengers, of which one was the driver, presumably died instantly, while a woman was seriously injured. Rescue workers had to work quickly and carefully to free her from the wreckage, while it was still suspended from the bridge. Thereafter a Metro salvage truck from Cape Town was used to carefully lower the Jetta to the ground. Once on the ground, one could then see the full extent of the damage to the flattened car. According to a police spokesperson, the vehicle had been driving from Mbekweni to Khayamandi after the passengers had visited friends in the area. Lozola Vanda, Maxwell Layi and Loyiso Mpela died, and Thumi Ntsomi was hospitalised with serious injuries. They were all from Khayamandi (Stellenbosch). Shortly before midnight, also on Sunday, Nazeem Ismail was killed when his vehicle collided with an electricity pole next to the Durbanville/Klipheuwel Road. The vehicle was split in two by the collision. His friend, Chantal Williams, survived the accident. Ismail was from Magnolia flat in Paarl East. These two accidents now bring the death toll on local roads during the past two weeks to a staggering 22.
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